Snatched 13-year-old ‘not pushed to talk of ordeal’

THE uncle of a 13-year-old American boy rescued four days after he was snatched on his way home from school said yesterday that no one is pushing the boy to talk about his ordeal.

Lloyd Bailie, the uncle of teenager Ben Ownby, told CBS’s Early Show that the boy was only talking with FBI counsellors.

“No one’s pushing him at this point to answer these questions,” Mr Bailie said. “The biggest concern is all of the media coverage — that somebody’s going to ask the wrong question. But at this point, everyone has been very respectful of Ben and his family.”